“The discovery of genes as young as agriculture and city-states, rather than as old as cavemen, means ‘we have to rethink to foundational assumptions’ of evo psych, says Miller, starting with the claim that there are human universals and that they are the result of a Stone Age brain. Evolution indeed sculpted the human brain. But it worked in malleable plastic, not stone, bequeathing us flexible minds that can take stock of the world and adapt to it.”
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Erik R. on 06.30.2009
Fascinating.
Is that why kids these days have Nintendo-button-shaped thumbs?
sisiggy on 07.01.2009
He obviously has not met my mother-in-law.
(delivered in a Henny Youngman voice)
(…if anyone else remembers Henny Youngman’s voice…)